34 min
Susan Savion raises awareness of a forgotten suffragist in "Quoting Matilda" Train Your Brain, Claim Your Power
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Born in Upstate New York to an abolitionist family, Matilda Joslyn Gage was one of the three most famous suffragists in America. Yet her story is all but forgotten in the annals of time because she was considered too radical. Today many of the ideas she championed are taken for granted. Women have been voting for decades and we have much more control over our finances, however, there are still plenty of issues Matilda championed that have never been realized. And here's a little tidbit, Matilda was the inspiration for L. Frank Baum's character, Glenda the Good Witch in the Oz books. Many of her ideas are woven into the series.
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Born in Upstate New York to an abolitionist family, Matilda Joslyn Gage was one of the three most famous suffragists in America. Yet her story is all but forgotten in the annals of time because she was considered too radical. Today many of the ideas she championed are taken for granted. Women have been voting for decades and we have much more control over our finances, however, there are still plenty of issues Matilda championed that have never been realized. And here's a little tidbit, Matilda was the inspiration for L. Frank Baum's character, Glenda the Good Witch in the Oz books. Many of her ideas are woven into the series.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-sherayko/support
34 min